Power! Task 10

 

   
Parliament
 

 

 
 
  Lesson Objectives
To understand how elections and Parliament work
 
   
   
 
     
 
  Your Tasks  
     
 

Click on this link http://www.explore.parliament.uk to find out more detail about elections and how Parliament works.

 
 

 

 
 

Alternatively you may find this link more useful: General Elections Explained

 
     
 
Next download and do the Discover Parliament Quiz. You will find the answers in the documents above.
 
     
 

Explore the CBBC Newsround website to find out more. Try the quizzes and surveys.

 
     
  Test your learning by doing the Match the Political Words worksheet. Your teacher might have a paper version of this to do as a card sorting game.  
     
  There are more weblinks in the resources folder, including a Maze game, where you have to try to escape from the Houses of Parliament. Look at the live webcams of the Commons and Lords. Sometimes these don’t seem very lively!  
 
     
 
  Your essay!
 
 

Now you are an expert on Voting, Elections and Parliament write your essay Power to the People.

 
  Click on the links below for  
   
 
  • An assessment grid to work out what level your essay is.
 
 
     

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